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Jacksonville police investigating overnight shooting

Jacksonville police are searching for the gunman who shot a man early Tuesday on the city’s Westside.

Police said the man was standing on the sidewalk in the 8400 block of Whispering Pines Drive just after midnight when he was shot. Police said the unidentified victim was driven to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries by a friend.

Police did not provide other details about the shooting, including a motive or suspect description.

Meanwhile, police have yet to release new details in the death of a man found about 12:50 p.m. in his Arlington apartment Monday. The 60-year-old man, who remains unidentified, died at the River City Landing Apartments at 2681 University Blvd. N.

Police did not say if the man was a crime victim, listing the death as undetermined. The Sheriff’s Office homicide team was on the scene.

Police have also reported no arrests overnight in Sunday’s slaying of William Henry Nesmith, 35, who was found dead outside an apartment building at 630 W. Fourth St. or Saturday’s Northside slaying of 18-year-old Adrian Watkins Jr., whose body was found in a ditch behind Rutledge Pearson Elementary School.

Anyone with information in any of the cases is asked to call police at (904) 630-0500.